WoW Moviewatch: Garrosh vs. Vol'jin
by Michael Gray 
Jul 8th 2010 at 12:00PM
There are relatively few well-known machinima voice actors. While most (if not all) machinima creators eventually spend time voice acting and often do that work for one another, the world of "primarily a voice actor" folks is relatively small. Among them, however, Jesse Cox is one of the best and most popular. He's very skilled and can convey immense amounts of characterization with his instrument: his voice. We get the chance to see him do his thing in Garrosh vs. Vol'Jin.
In this video, Jesse's conveying one of the hallmark conflicts in Cataclysm. Racial leaders Garrosh and Vol'jin have some harsh words for one another, which will eventually lead to significant ramifications for the Horde. Jesse's working on a series of guided tours through Cataclysm, but this episode stands out because of the opportunity to let him voice act both characters. As I think you'll see, he does an amazing job. As interesting as I found the lore to be, I found his performance equally entertaining.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Falcon6 Jul 8th 2010 12:03PM
His Troll accent...it be a worthy one. I bow to this greatness.
/bow
Hurbster Jul 8th 2010 4:03PM
Caribbean with hints of Scotland occasionally.
Para Jul 8th 2010 6:17PM
Im not really a lore nerd i dip into it every now and then, i liked the belf lore and stuff about the sundering and all, considering my main is a troll atm, HELL YEAH! Blizz really needed to add the war back to warcraft not only alliance v horde we now have horde vs horde with trolls vs orcs? This might just be one if the bits of lore i dip into :P
All in all its a VERY nice twist to the good/evil in warcraft and makes the trolls out to be quite the antiheroes :D
kazeko.fuuga Jul 8th 2010 6:18PM
I'm from the Caribbean myself, and I gotta say, this guy is pretty spot on...
even better than a lot of the random npc's
Para Jul 8th 2010 6:21PM
Oh yeah also forgot to add :
Credit where credit is due on the voice acting. Spot on, ya sent da trollz flippin mon!
Josin Jul 8th 2010 12:04PM
I saw this the other day and was like "That guy needs to be doing the actual in-game voices."
Sean Jul 8th 2010 4:04PM
Jesse Cox replied to a comment on YouTube and said: "Think I stated this before... i have done just about everything possible, save break into their recording studio.... apparently it's not in the stars. "
Blizzard, get your head out of your rear and hire this guy! He just nailed two very difficult voices in one video!
Jostin Jul 8th 2010 4:11PM
I be agreein wit' ya mon'
Jejin Jul 8th 2010 12:06PM
He has a real grit to his voices for these characters that really works. I'd love to see him doing some voices for the game :>
Adegan Jul 8th 2010 2:56PM
I suspect that may be his desire too - he hopes eventually Blizz will pick up on his talents and hire him. It worked for the musician Pogo, I don't see why it wouldn't here!
Astalnar Jul 8th 2010 12:10PM
This explain why only tauren and orcs are allowed into the center of Orgrimmar. They are only one that did not pick a fight with Garrosh since he kills Cairne.
Jigawik Jul 8th 2010 12:19PM
*Spoiler*
He doesn't kill Cairne, the Grimtotems do
Clydtsdk-Rivendare Jul 8th 2010 12:20PM
Cairne saves babies!
*gagged*
Cephas Jul 8th 2010 12:26PM
Garrosh DOES NOT kill Cairne. Cairne gets upset with Garrosh and challenges him to a duel. Cairne loses, but he is not killed during the duel. While he is in recovery after losing the duel he dies. Garrosh fears that the Tauren will blame him for the Cairne's death, and so he quickly leaves Thunder Bluff. Later it is revealed that Cairne's death was actually caused by the Grimtotem (Magatha in particular) who had been poisoning him. When Garrosh finds this out he basically declares war on the Grimtotem and drives them out of the Horde.
tl;dr The Grimtotem killed Cairne, not Garrosh.
Anuillae Jul 8th 2010 12:58PM
:O Cairne dies? I thought that was just an idle rumour from Gamerzine! Awwww, that sucks!
GnomishMight Jul 8th 2010 1:19PM
Grimtotems don't kill Cairne, people WITH Grimtotems kill Cairne.
Kar On E Jul 8th 2010 2:01PM
@GnomishMight Technically, Cows with Grimtotems kill Cairne. Good point nonetheless! :P
Seeing this, I suspect that this confirms one of my core beliefs about why the Tauren are in Orgrimmar. The reason that they still have a presence in Orgrimmar is due to political reasons within the Horde...not because they and Orcs are truly the only races "tough enough" to protect the city.
One point I've yet to hear anyone bring up is that the Horde does not do a lot of cross-pollination between cities...that is, there are really no "other race" districts in Undercity, Silvermoon, and Thunder Bluff (the cavern with 3 undead doesn't count IMHO). Orgrimmar had the Troll district, but with the retaking of the Echo Isles this is not as necessary anymore. There would be no real set standard for Garrosh to add in a district for any race based upon current city design other than to appease the Tauren after the Cairne scandal.
Add to this that the Tauren are the only Horde race that Garrosh actually trusts right now, and it would seem IMHO that he would be foolish not to allow for a Tauren district.
Adegan Jul 8th 2010 3:03PM
One think I'd like to see, on the similar topic to the last reply, is racial hearths. I think every PC should have an innate racial hearth to their home city in the same manner as DKs do to the Ebon Hold. It's be a good way to prevent the playerbase concentrating in one or two cities, and they'd be more likely to pick up quests in their part of the world. It would also add to the flavour of each city if the PCs were the race you'd expect to find in that city.
Drakkenfyre Jul 8th 2010 3:22PM
As opposed to the Alliance, which have a Druid section in SW (the park) a Dwarven section, and IF has a Gnome section. Darnassus will soon have a Worgen section.
Suzaku Jul 8th 2010 9:50PM
A lot of people are seeings little bits of pieces of Cataclysm lore, specifically with Garrosh, and misinterpreting things to a huge degree. Other people are spreading outright misinformation.
Some important things:
The conversation between Garrosh and Vol'jin is a flashback to before the present timeline of Cataclysm. At the end of the troll starting area, Thrall smooths things over between the two and Vol'jin agrees to give the kid a chance.
Garrosh is not behind the kidnapping of Thrall. How and why people would think this is beyond me. Thrall is his biggest supporter. Garrosh distrusts and dislikes the Trade Prince (for good reason), and believes that goblins may have been involved in Thrall's capture. However, after reading Thrall's reports and recommendations, he admits the Bilgewater into the Horde.
Garrosh does not kill Cairne, he's framed for the murder by the Grimtotem tribe, who stage a coup to capture Thunder Bluff. Garrosh is the one who leads the assault to retake Thunder Bluff and to install Cairne's son and the rightful heir, Baine Bloodhoof, back in power.
Garrosh begins to take after (and even quote) Saurfang, taking a strong stance against war crimes such as harming women and children. He also takes issue with Sylvanas for her willingness to continue using the plague and for raising new undead to bolster the Forsaken forces.